Cookie Recipe 5: Classic Snickerdoodles

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In your kitchen mixer, cream the butter, shortening (or more butter), sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Once they’re well-blended, add the flour about 1 cup at a time. With the last 3/4 cup of flour, also add the cream of tartar, baking soda and salt and mix just until blended. In a separate bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon. Using a cookie scoop or just your hands to roll into evenly sized balls of dough, and roll them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet (lined with parchment paper if you have it). Bake about 10 minutes. They should be set, with slightly browned edges, but not hard. No one likes a too-crunchy snickerdoodle, aight? Recipe makes about 30 snickerdoodle cookies with a 1.5 tablespoon cookie scoop.

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